The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-05-15
Interesting News Melange
From Vaterland.
THE WORK OF THE REICHSTAG.
German Language in Schools is
Taken-Other Notes
OVER THE OCEAN.
The Troubles in Emperor Williams
Dominions-Genera

BERLIN, May 1.-THE commission on
the spirit tax held preliminary sitting
yesterday. The composition of the
commission gives so strong majority
to the supporters of the bill that there
is no chance that the amendment will
be other than the government chooses.
The sugar bill was passed by the
Bundesrath to-day, and will be pre-
sented to the Reichstag next week.
An effort will be made to have the
measure pass its first reading before
Wnitsuntide. The bill fixes the import
duty from August 1st, 1888, on syrup
and molasses at Is marks per 100
kilograms; upon all other sugar,
30 marks per 10u Kilograms: on
beet roots, mark, and on
bes'-root sugar, homemade, 10
marks per 100 kilograms. Further, from
the same date an export bounty OF 10
marks per 100 kilograms will be paid on
raw sugar, and for other sugar export
bounties of II marks.
The Reichstag will overtake, during
the present session. some of the social
measures. The first Of these to be taken
up will be the seamens' accident insur-
sitting.
The Agrarian party has definitely
succeeded in inducing government to
prepare bill raising the duties on corn
and wool.
Herr Won Schol, minister of finance,
has bill in hand. 1t is reported that
leading proposals nearly double the i'm
port duties on corn, rye and wool.
The opposition to these proposals
lessons under the irritation caused by
Russian tariffs, which are hostile to
Germany.
Official advices from st. Petersburg,
to-day, declare there is a marked i'm
provement in Russian relations with
Germany, and that the entente
cordidle with Prince Bismarck has
been renewed despite the Austro-
Russian treaty regarding the occupa-
ton OF Bosnia. This statement con-
fiicts with the feeling in Berlin official
circles and is interpreted as indicating q
dread of further revelations of new
intrigue on the part Of Russia, who, it
is alleged, is trying TO induce
Austria to abandon the German
alliance. The origin of the recent dis
closure is now known to be the discovery
by Prince Bismarck that Russia was
making approaches for another secret
treaty with Austria, with the object of
detaching her from Germany. The
disclosure has effected its purpose of
frustrating the Russian game, and
obliging the Austrian government to
summarily refuse to consider any
arrangements not known to Germany
here.
Tizza. Hungarian Premier, will be
questioned next week in the Diet at
Pesth, for the purpose of eliciting in
formation as to the relations between
Austria and Russia, but it is improbable
that TiZza will be in position to make
an explicit declaration. He can GER
tainly venture to say nothing about the
new Russian intrigue, suspicion of
which increases to the anger of the
Hungarian Deputies over the Relchstag
compact of 1876. In the face of the
Russian underground plotting, open
tariff hestilities and efforts to extin-
guish Germans in the Baltic provinces,
verbal assurances coming from st.
Petersburg are held of small account.
The Post, referring to the Cars edict
suppressing. the German language in
schools, declares that this is the hardest
blow struck at German and European
civilization in the Baltic provinces. 1t
involves the extirpation of the German
element in Dorpat University, and will
intensity the bitterness of anti-Russian
sentiment felt throughout Germany.